English
Related papers

Related papers: SWING: Balancing Coverage and Faithfulness for Dia…

200 papers

In this paper, we propose FFCI, a framework for fine-grained summarization evaluation that comprises four elements: faithfulness (degree of factual consistency with the source), focus (precision of summary content relative to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Fajri Koto , Timothy Baldwin , Jey Han Lau

Synthetically created Cross-Lingual Summarisation (CLS) datasets are prone to include document-summary pairs where the reference summary is unfaithful to the corresponding document as it contains content not supported by the document (i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Huajian Zhang , Laura Perez-Beltrachini

Dialogue summarization has been extensively studied and applied, where the prior works mainly focused on exploring superior model structures to align the input dialogue and the output summary. However, for professional dialogues (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Leilei Gan , Yating Zhang , Kun Kuang , Lin Yuan , Shuo Li , Changlong Sun , Xiaozhong Liu , Fei Wu

Despite large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in various tasks, they are still suffering from the factual inconsistency problem called hallucinations. For instance, LLMs occasionally generate content that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Taiji Li , Zhi Li , Yin Zhang

In the recent past, a popular way of evaluating natural language understanding (NLU), was to consider a model's ability to perform natural language inference (NLI) tasks. In this paper, we investigate if NLI tasks, that are rarely used for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Lovish Madaan , David Esiobu , Pontus Stenetorp , Barbara Plank , Dieuwke Hupkes

Nature language inference (NLI) task is a predictive task of determining the inference relationship of a pair of natural language sentences. With the increasing popularity of NLI, many state-of-the-art predictive models have been proposed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Haohan Wang , Da Sun , Eric P. Xing

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of determining whether a premise entails, contradicts, or is neutral with respect to a given hypothesis. The task is often framed as emulating human inferential processes, in which commonsense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chathuri Jayaweera , Brianna Yanqui , Bonnie Dorr

Text summarization is crucial for mitigating information overload across domains like journalism, medicine, and business. This research evaluates summarization performance across 17 large language models (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Anantharaman Janakiraman , Behnaz Ghoraani

We report the results of DialogSum Challenge, the shared task on summarizing real-life scenario dialogues at INLG 2022. Four teams participate in this shared task and three submit their system reports, exploring different methods to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yulong Chen , Naihao Deng , Yang Liu , Yue Zhang

Natural Language Inference (NLI) is the task of inferring whether the hypothesis can be justified by the given premise. Basically, we classify the hypothesis into three labels(entailment, neutrality and contradiction) given the premise. NLI…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Zijiang Yang

Despite the recent progress in language generation models, their outputs may not always meet user expectations. In this work, we study whether informational feedback in natural language can be leveraged to improve generation quality and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yixin Liu , Budhaditya Deb , Milagro Teruel , Aaron Halfaker , Dragomir Radev , Ahmed H. Awadallah

We study existing approaches to leverage off-the-shelf Natural Language Inference (NLI) models for the evaluation of summary faithfulness and argue that these are sub-optimal due to the granularity level considered for premises and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Huajian Zhang , Yumo Xu , Laura Perez-Beltrachini

Factual inconsistencies pose a significant hurdle for the faithful summarization by generative models. While a major direction to enhance inconsistency detection is to derive stronger Natural Language Inference (NLI) models, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Liyan Xu , Zhenlin Su , Mo Yu , Jin Xu , Jinho D. Choi , Jie Zhou , Fei Liu

Dialogue summarization aims to condense the original dialogue into a shorter version covering salient information, which is a crucial way to reduce dialogue data overload. Recently, the promising achievements in both dialogue systems and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xiachong Feng , Xiaocheng Feng , Bing Qin

Many text generation applications require the generated text to be factually consistent with input information. Automatic evaluation of factual consistency is challenging. Previous work has developed various metrics that often depend on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yuheng Zha , Yichi Yang , Ruichen Li , Zhiting Hu

A commonly observed problem with the state-of-the art abstractive summarization models is that the generated summaries can be factually inconsistent with the input documents. The fact that automatic summarization may produce…

To build robust question answering systems, we need the ability to verify whether answers to questions are truly correct, not just "good enough" in the context of imperfect QA datasets. We explore the use of natural language inference (NLI)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Jifan Chen , Eunsol Choi , Greg Durrett

Making theory-of-mind inferences from human dialogue is a strong indicator of a model's underlying social abilities, which are fundamental for adept AI assistants. However, large language and reasoning models struggle to understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Akhil Deo , Kate Sanders , Benjamin Van Durme

Reliable evaluation of large language model (LLM)-generated summaries remains an open challenge, particularly across heterogeneous domains and document lengths. We conduct a comprehensive meta-evaluation of 14 automatic summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Huyen Nguyen , Haoxuan Zhang , Yang Zhang , Junhua Ding , Haihua Chen

Conditional language models still generate unfaithful output that is not supported by their input. These unfaithful generations jeopardize trust in real-world applications such as summarization or human-machine interaction, motivating a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Julius Steen , Juri Opitz , Anette Frank , Katja Markert